“Consumer spending has been choppy over the past year in response to volatile petrol prices and a soft housing market. We believe that a recovery in consumer spending is now starting to take hold.”
Craig James
“It's been a volatile year. But the trend is still up and there's a lot more to go. We're just at the beginning of the revolution. We're trying to identify the elephants of the industry and we're trying to buy the elephants.”
Ken Kam
“It was very volatile in its first year [because] we tried to accommodate everybody's requirements,”
Steve Butler
“It's been a tough year and it's been an extremely volatile year.”
Michael Cohen
“Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.”
David Lenze
“We expect the whole year to be very volatile. When the market's excited and upbeat, it goes up a few percents, and when they get concerned about things like earnings, they'll go down. At this point, we'd probably think we're in the middle of a trading range. We think at the end of the day the market is going to be up maybe 10 or 15 percent for the year. Expect wild volatility along the way.”
David Katz
“Quarterly figures are very volatile and susceptible to revision, particularly at the turn of the year.”
Otmar Issing
